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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Your Most Trusted Advisor

I consider my body my most trusted advisor. I think it assimilates information from the Universe that I can’t understand fully at first. You see, I know the Universe wants my best life, but sometimes I don’t heed its advice – sometimes I’m convinced I don’t even hear it. It’s like Oprah says: Life sends you messages – first it will put a pebble in your path, then a rock, and then a brick wall. If I don’t hear the plink of the pebble, the rock shows up – usually as a bodily symptom. I pay attention because I really want to avoid hitting that brick wall.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

The Power of Your Story

Many people go through life creating by default; they just aren’t clear about what they really want. They become hung up on how much is going wrong in their life or in the world. And once that happens, they start to tell a story—they construct a narrative around the grim details that have captured their attention. “People ask too much of me.” “My house is a mess.” “I don’t have enough money to do what I really want.” We’ve all heard these tales, and what’s worse, we’ve all told them.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

What Are You Mirroring?

Anne Lamott once wrote, "The great good news is that we're not all crazy at the same time." The thing is that my clients often tell me that they and their partners are always crazy at the same time. And this does, in fact, make sense because we all have "mirror neurons" in our brains. Mirror neurons are found all over the brain. They look like other neurons but what makes them special is a web of connections that links these motor and sensory system neurons to the limbic centers that process visceral and emotional reactions. They're responsible for a whole range of phenomena.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Exercising Hope

Hope is not just some ephemeral emotion. Nor is it the abstract one-size-fits-all concept put to work in poetry and political campaigns. It’s actually a deeply felt neurochemical stance that our minds take toward our current circumstances—a stance that alters our outlooks and our actions, as well as the life paths that unfold before us.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

From Chaos to Clarity

One of my coaching clients is struggling with clutter. And although I don't advertise it as a service, I actually love to declutter and organize. So I offered to help her—and started the conversation by stating that I wouldn't try to compel her to give up anything she didn't want to let go. At the same time, I did share with her the thoughts that I will share with you now. You imbue everything you own with a certain kind of energy. Things that are loved, used and appreciated have strong, vital energies. Clutter, which is anything unwanted, unloved, or unused, can diminish your energy.r

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Notes From the Bottom of a Well

Before you start reading this article, I’d like you to sit quietly for a few seconds. Take in a full breath, let it fill your lungs, and then release it slowly.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Don't Worry. I Got This.

I recently wrote about the power of your story in anticipation of meeting 12 women for The Power of Your Story event I was hosting. All of the women were truly amazing and I would love to write about each one of them. Today, with her permission, I will tell the story of one of them.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Be a Brain Scientist

“To think is to practice brain chemistry.” - Deepak Chopra Have you ever heard someone say, “Well, I’m no brain scientist…”? Quite recently I had lunch with a friend while he was on a break from work. When he ordered a beer I raised my eyebrows in mock astonishment. He replied “It’s not like I’m performing brain surgery later.” But we are all brain scientists. Our thoughts really do affect our brain chemistry. And we can be like surgeons in our ability to carefully excise negative thoughts from our gray matter.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Lessons of the Albatross

Last night a friend and I were talking about some challenges in his life and I remembered a line from a poem by Robert Bly: The albatross that lands on the mast began flying a thousand years ago. A long time ago, back when we were pure positive energy, we didn’t doubt for a minute that manifesting would be pretty cool. But when we arrive in our physical forms and challenges pop up, we forget that every experience is an opportunity to discover what we really want and to become our best selves.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Notes From the Bottom of a Well

Before you start reading this article, I'd like you to sit quietly for a few seconds. Take in a full breath, let it fill your lungs, and then release it slowly. Repeat this simple breathing exercise and include the words from my favorite meditation: Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.~ Thich Nhat Hahn I try to remember this little meditation practice when I feel challenged, tired and inadequate.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

War Buddies

One of my clients is haunted by the memory of a former lover. She wonders how she allowed such a "bad" relationship to go on for so long. Of course she did the best she could with the awareness she had at the time. But now she has 20/20 hindsight. We’ve all been in her shoes. We wish we could’ve been more conscious, more able to act on the signs that things were not going well, and avoided the "bad" thing that happened.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

10 Ways to Wake Up Your Mornings

1. Get Up.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Crush It! How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

Sometimes when I ask my clients "If money weren't an issue, what would you do with your time?" they answer that they don't know or that they would sit on a beach all day. I think those responses are understandable, but I'm also pretty sure that they do know, and it's not sitting on a beach all day.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Finding Peace

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there. - Byron Katie I love Byron Katie. I really do. I had a read a ton of literature on happiness – from academic studies to the Dalai Lama - and nothing helped me let go of my stressful thoughts like her simple process called “the Work.“ Earlier this year I had a pretty challenging phone conversation with my father. He wants his grandson vaccinated, but my husband and I have decided not to vaccinate our son.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Celebrating YOU

Many of my clients are women who understand the importance of self-acceptance and appreciation because they want their children to exhibit these traits, but they often get stuck on how to do it for themselves. Of course, the ultimate goal is for us to model being and loving ourselves in an authentic way. If we truly love ourselves, most of what we want in life—again, usually happiness for ourselves and the ones we love—comes so much more easily. We may still have some worries, and we'll definitely continue to have goals, dreams and desires.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

10 Steps to a Happier 2010

Step #1: Define Happiness First ask, “What makes me happy?” Think carefully about this because your definition of happiness may be very different from the cultural norm (I know mine is!) and it will influence every other significant decision in your life. For example, my husband and I both choose to work part-time. We make much less than we could if we worked more, but we enjoy the balance we’ve created in our lives.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

No Success Like Failure

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." ~Thomas Edison There is a field of research that studies how scientists study things. And by scientists, I mean anyone who acquires knowledge by forming a hypothesis—essentially a belief about what they expect to see—and then tries to prove it. Most of the time, this testing of hypotheses takes place in sterile clinical settings that allow scientists to control for every possible variable.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Resilience

If you were to gather up the day's news you would invariably come to the conclusion that the world needs saving, right? Well, I expect it will need saving tomorrow, too. And in the meantime, I am going to reflect on what it means to "do something" in the face of great suffering. Yes, the reports from around the world are dire, but they reflect something else, too: The scale of suffering is balanced by resilience, courage, and hope.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

How to Be a Completionista

Sometimes the "incompletes" in our lives can add up and we can start to feel overwhelmed. There are big incompletes -- our long-held dreams, our unpursued passions -- and then there are the little incompletes -- the stuff we see every day that niggles at us, the "to-dos," the lists of tasks we really want to do … someday. You don't need many of these incompletes before everywhere you look (even into the future) you see things you haven't done instead of the things you have done. This can undermine your energy and happiness.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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By Stacey CurnowRecently published1 topic

Send the Gatekeeper a New Memo

The Reticular Activating System (RAS for short) is a tiny part of the brain with a big and important job. It controls consciousness and acts as a filter. At any given moment you have approximately 2 million bits of sensory information available to you. You're only capable of absorbing about 150 bits per second. All the other bits are there, but you literally don't know it, because the RAS doesn't let them in.

Primary topic: Digestive Wellness

Digestive Wellness

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